"You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear." ~ Sherlock Holmes Under the amber glow of gaslight, fog furls forth, a bobby blows his whistle, and conveyance to the world of Sh…
The Players Club of Swarthmore brings six average Joes to the stage with its season finale musical, The Full Monty. Based on the 1997 movie featuring six British blue-collar out-of-work stee…
I met jazz chanteuse Changamire' at a networking event. She quickly warmed up to me and gave me her latest jazz album "Love" to listen to. I was blown away. In our interview she shared how s…
Published in 1915, Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology – a collection of free-verse poems in which the deceased residents of a fictional rural town in Illinois recount episodes fr…
Rent fans are in for a treat as Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp team up for a one-night-only concert event at Strathmore this Friday, April 28th at 8 PM. Pascal and Rapp are forever joined in t…
Taking Sides by Ronald Harwood is a stark look at post-war process and what is really meant by getting at the truth of what happened, why, who knew and when. Director Mary Ayala-Bush has cra…
John Guare’s masterpiece from 1990 solidly launched his career, earning a run of 155 performances off-Broadway which extended to a run at the Beaumont Theatre on Broadway of 485 additi…
"I did tell you" "You didn't" "I did I said Wednesday we're going to dinner with" "But you didn't" "Yes because I remember because you said" "All right I must have forgotten I'm sorry" "Yes …
I’ve seen this play so many times. As a youngster of 19 I played “Horace” at NYU in a production that helped me along in my burgeoning acting career. Someone saw me in it, …
Did you ever wonder what happens when "a duck walks into a bar"? Anthony Caporale (performer, playwright, and Director of Beverage Studies at New York's Institute of Culinary Education) will…
The Lost City of Z is a throwback adventure story. Based on the book of the same name by David Grann, the film follows Percy Fawcett at the tail end of the era of grand discoveries, when it …
Launching an anthology of stories entitled Roar: True Tales of Women Warriors to benefit the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the professional story-telling group, Better Said Than…
From The Kennedy Center: 2017"2018 Theater Season: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced programming for its 2017"2018 theater season in an event on the famed Op…
I’m going to tell you a short story before I get to my review of Hello, Dolly! which is now playing at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway. I do so to give what’s now called “t…
What's so funny about suicide, cremation, drug addiction, PTSD, and familial dysfunction? Playwright Lauren Ferebee finds the dark comedy in all of that, along with the innate tragedy and ir…
Earlier this season, The Media Theatre presented Shakespeare's classic Romeo & Juliet. Now they're concluding their 2016-2017 season with a production of West Side Story, the musi…
Written by John Markus and Mark St. Germain, whose previous writing credits include The Cosby Show, The Fabulous Lipitones is a light comedy that deals with deeper issues with the absolute c…
Director Mike Harsh’s concept to set Hagerstown Community College’s Jesus Christ Superstar in a modern day Syrian-esque refugee camp gives the show a renewed immediacy that grips…
New theater voices, heard in their own language and accessible to a wide audience. In a world-class area full of strivers like the DC metro area, it is about time. This admiring column is ba…
“I do believe you darkies are trying to kill me,” says Martha Washington to her house slaves in this fantastical-historical play, just opened in a sensationally cheeky production…
Ovations Theatre hits another one out of the park with their production of Hairspray, Jr. performed entirely by 3rd through 9th graders. With a book by Marc O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, musi…
RANDY BAKER, Playwright Michael: Introduce yourself, Rorschach, and the play Forgotten Kingdoms in under 140 characters. Go! No, just kidding…just tell us something about yourself and abou…
Is it nature or nurture? Is it innate personality or fearless optimism? Is the ability to see the glass half full, the willingness to take a chance, the inclination to ask or speak your m…
What does 21st-century ballet look like? For The Kennedy Center's Ballet Across America program, principle dancer and celeb ballerina Misty Copeland, 34, and 29-year-old New York City Ballet…
Scottie Templeton is dying. And with that deadly diagnosis, Tribute, by Bernard Slade, now playing at the Greenbelt Arts Center, poignantly considers what's really important in life an…